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School Grants and Education Quality : Experimental Evidence from Senegal / Pedro Carneiro.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Carneiro, Pedro.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child Development.
- Clustered Randomized Control Trials.
- Decentralization.
- Quality of Education.
- School Resources.
- Local Subjects:
- Child Development.
- Clustered Randomized Control Trials.
- Decentralization.
- Quality of Education.
- School Resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (43 pages)
- Other Title:
- School Grants and Education Quality
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed schools to apply for funding for improvements of their own choice. The analysis finds positive effects on test scores at lower grades that persist at least two years. These effects are concentrated among schools that focused funds on human resource improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality.
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